From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61442
Date: 2008-11-06
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From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Laryngeal h4
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>
>> On 2008-11-06 03:35, etherman23 wrote:
>>
>> > Pretty interesting that *h2 doesn't occur before labiovelars.
>>
>> I actully overlooked one example: *sleh2gW-
>
> According to Starostin this only occurs in Greek and Old English. The
> Old English, laccan, appears to lack a labiovelar (though perhaps this
> is due to the loss of labialization before rounded vowels if OE /a/
> was rounded).
>
> The case for *h1 before labiovelars isn't looking too good either. I
> found two roots. *k'eh1kW, meaning hay. It occurs in Old Indian,
> Baltic, and Germanic. However, it is well represented in the Baltic
> and Germanic families. *yeh1gW meaning power. It occurs only in Greek
> and Baltic (Lithuanian and Lettish).
>
> IIRC, every example I've found is represented in Greek (usually with
> Baltic) and none in Hittite, Tocharian, Italic or Celtic. This
> suggests to me that the handful of counterexamples are borrowings from
> a Western European substrate.
>
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I don't understand ?
Greek and Old-Indian show the counter-examples are borrowings from _Western_
Europe ??
Not to say anything about Germanic whose origin is far from being western.
A.